When I dropped off my quilt Forget Me Not, Collaboration with Grandma at the Pence Gallery last week I was given postcards to promote the exhibit. It was a very nice surprise to see that the gallery chose a detail photo of my piece for the postcard (bottom right). The Pence presents its first juried […]
Archives for January 2013
Titmouse Nest
Last year a pair of Titmice found the nesting box and raised a clutch right under our kitchen window. It seemed that we had barely cleaned out the Bewick’s Wren nest from the year before, when the Titmouse spied the box and started building. We removed the nest this past weekend. The difference between the […]
Sunflower Scrap IV Fini
Done. And I’m rather happy with the nuanced differences in this one. I outline quilted the vines and leaves with the gold-orange thread and tried my hand with some new quilting designs. I used two colors of beads in the center. See the first three in this series here.
Sunflower Scrap IV Progress
When I put this small quilt on my design wall for further consideration last week, I thought my dilemma was the next step in the background quilting design. Yesterday I realized it wasn’t the background that needed clearer thinking, it was the foreground. Here I have added a leaf and tendril to the bottom right […]
Goodies From Houston Deux
I couldn’t wait to share these! Here are more handkerchiefs I found in Houston. This one is cotton, measures 11 3/4″ square and is in pristine condition. Another cotton one in the same colors — this one measures 15″ square. There is a bit of staining, but I don’t mind that. The edge is hand […]
Sunflower Scrap IV
I’m making progress on the 4th sunflower art quilt in a series. The background fabric is a beige upholstery cotton left over from a window seat project. The weight of this fabric will enable me to quilt with fewer stops to block during the process. This sunflower is the largest one yet, so it dominates […]
Goodies From Houston
Distracted by fast-moving life events, I am just now getting around to integrating the few treasures I purchased in Houston at the Quilt Festival. For years I have prowled antique shops, thrift stores and kept my eye peeled at venues like Houston where antique dealers appear. One of the dealers had a sizeable stash of […]
Word for 2013
It’s the first day of 2013 and I am looking forward. A review of 2012 was done on a monthly, if not weekly basis, with the words simplicity and focus as yardsticks. I need to keep a tight rein on my actions to avoid the R word — regret — which usually leads to another […]